Caroline Looney

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“Linger” by Caroline Looney

Submitted to Contest #290

   If she would have known. She would have lingered, it never would have been so hurried. How ignorant that was, to rush a kiss as if we were things that live forever. You should never kiss like there will be a next time, because one day there won’t. One day he’ll walk out the door like he has hundreds of times. Your floor boards will creak, screaming at him to stand on them forever. Your door will close, a little too loudly, shouting for him to come back. A silence will sweep into the house, like the house knows he will never...

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